Oral and Online Presentations Questions

1. Oral presentations give you the opportunity to practice and demonstrate your communication skills, including research, planning, writing, visual design, and interpersonal and nonverbal communication. They also give you the opportunity to practice thinking on your feet, grasping complex business issues, and handling challenging situations.

2. During the introduction of an oral presentation, you should arouse interest in your topic, establish your credibility, and prepare the audience for what is to come in the rest of the presentation; you should summarize your main idea and identify the major supporting points in the introduction.

3. In order to get your audience's attention during the introduction, you can tell a story, use humor, ask a question, pass around a sample, state a startling statistic, or unite the audience around a common goal.

4. In the close of your presentation, you should restate your major points, describe the next steps on where to go from here, and end on a strong note.

5. In order to ensure the success of an online presentation, you should send preview study materials ahead of time, keep your presentation as simple as possible, ask for feedback frequently since you will not be able to see any nonverbal cues from the audience, consider the viewing experience from the audience's point of view when preparing your presentation, make sure your audience can receive the type of content you plan on using, and allow plenty of time for everyone to get connected and familiar with the screen they're viewing the presentation on.